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SMITH DITCH HGT 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5000647 · 1 · RED DIRT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1894-12-31 — 76th most senior of the 360 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: BUCK DEER DITCH (1892-07-15). Immediately behind: SMITH DITCH HGT 2 (1894-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.16436 | 1894-12-31 | 1911-08-03 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 84 |
| 21973.0 | 1910-02-28 | 1911-08-03 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 113 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 180 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 213 AF — 118% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 368 | 13th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 51 | 8.3 |
| 2010 | 54 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 10 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 460 | 14th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 55 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 160 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 42 | 2.1 |
| 2013 | 180 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 50 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 178 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 36 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 160 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 34 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 44 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 38 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 64 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 36 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 672 | 15th lowest of 15 · 373% of median | 108 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 286 | 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 47 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 287 | 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 63 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 232 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 54 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 35 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 213 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 51 | 4.0 |
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